Shawn Thompson

[shawnthompson]

I've been involved in web accessibility since 2008 when I was a web specialist and accessibility was forced upon me. Once I saw how important accessibility was on the web I knew that's where I wanted to focus my strengths in that field.

Co-Chair for the Digital Accessibility Toolkit / Sharing Space project.

Current department

Shared Services Canada (SSC)

Team

Accessibility, Accommodation and Adaptive Computer Technology (AAACT)

Knowledge:

• HTML (advanced)
• CSS (moderate to advance)
• Web Experience Toolkit (advance)
• JS (moderate)
• Digital Accessibility (Web and documents)
• NodeJS (moderate)
• git / Github (moderate to advance)

Hobbies

• Web development
• Micro breweries
• Punk Rock
• Anything Apple
• Minecraft (beginner to moderate)